46 HENRY SKINNKR, EDITOR. 



ANTHOPHORID^E. 

 Clisodon terminalis Cress. 



One S. (H. Skinner.) August 18, at flowers of Polemonium. 

 A Iso Sapello Canon, August 31 ( W. P. Cockerell ). Two 9 9 , June 

 30, 1902, (Viereck), Crew's Mesa just above Beulah, same zone, 

 June 29, 1902 (B. Chapman). 



Jlelissodes confusa Cress. 



Two S. August 12, 11)00, at flowers of Erigeron (T. D. A. 

 Cockerell). One specimen lias the pubescence paler than in the 

 types from Colorado, the other is normal. Males of this species 

 range from 8 to 12 mm. in length. One 2 , July (W. P. Cockerell). 

 One $ , July 11, 1902, on Helianthoid composite (W. P. Cockerell). 



1 nthophora n u biter r»e n. sp. — First joint of flagelhim a little longer 

 than second and third joints united. Apical abdominal plate broadly emarginate 

 Related to A. syringre Ckll. 



% Length 10 mm. Frontal fovese indistinctly punctured, front and vertex 

 opaque, roughened, clypeus and lateral areas coarsely almost confluently punc- 

 tured, labrum with shallow poorly defined separated punctures, depressed in the 

 middle. Cheeks partly shining, finely roughened. Thorax almost uniformly 

 sculptured like cheeks hut duller. Dorsulum with a fine central line running 

 back to the middle where the mesonoturn is shining. A shining longitudinal 

 Hue about two millimeters in length in the middle of each side. Tarsal claws 

 long, cleft down from the apex for about one-fourth the length of the claw. 

 Wings hyaline, costal and radial nervure dark brown, the other nervures slightly 

 paler, wing textures brownish along the nervures. Second submarginal cell 

 narrowed about one-half on the radius. Abdomen subopaque, finely indistinctly 

 sculptured, margins of segments testaceous. Head, thorax, abdomen, coxa? and 

 femora with pale pubescence, that of dorsulum brownish. Anterior tibia; partly 

 bare, median tibipe with white appressed pubescence and a patch of brownish 

 pubescence. Posterior tibia; like median one externally, the inner surface with 

 a deep brown pubescence. Tarsi with whitish pubescence externally, bright 

 brown internally. 



Black. Clypeus yellow, small dot at base of scape, supracly peal emarginate 

 band and V shaped lateral marks more ochreous, labrum lemon yellow, notched 

 at sides and apex with black. Smaller tarsal joints pale brownish. 



Type.— Coll. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Phila. Type locality, Beulah, 

 N. M., (W. P. Cockerell). One S . 

 Antbopliora bomboides. var. iieomexieana Ckll. 



May 30. 1 9 (W. Porter). 



NOMADDXE. 

 Kpeolus occidental is Ckll. 



Length, 8mm. Besides the small si/A', the specimen has the follow- 



